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Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ), Climate Justice Alliance (CJA), Right to the City Alliance (RTTC) and Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) are teaming up for the It Takes Roots to Grow the Resistance Delegation from January 18-21, 2017 and Trans-Local Actions in the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

Every day the landscape continues to change on a national level. The appointments Trump has made for his administration are clearly an assault on all the gains that people of color, women, immigrants, LGBTQ communities, and workers have fought for. This will have implications locally, nationally, and globally for years to come. Now is the critical time for a resistance movement to be visible and strong, on the defense and the offense.

Sand Francisco—Hundreds of Indigenous women and allies from the Bay Area will gather at 8am on Wednesday November 30th at Justin Herman Plaza for a prayer circle and teach-in on the national call to divest from the financial institutions funding the Dakota Access Pipeline.

From November 22-26, 2016 a multiracial national delegation of over 100 representatives from 20 movement organizations for social, economic, climate and environmental justice went to Standing Rock in a show of solidarity for indigenous survival and sovereignty as leaders on the ground continue to protect the water and halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.